Missed that reply, must be that name and my filter. ;)
There are certain fixed costs that some folks that are not in the silicon business do not seem to understand. One is the cost of a raw wafer of silicon. The process guys have squeezed all they could and what we have now is pretty close to minimum; volume (higher mass production) is not going to change this much, its pretty much already mass produced, as you said. The second misunderstood problem is one of defects. You get a certain density of defects per unit area, they have pretty much squeezed this down as far as they could. So because of the chip area and laws of probability, a FF sensor is going to be much more expensive than an APS sized sensor. Unless a fundamental discovery is made in manufacturing that reduces the cost of raw silicon, or massively reduces the defect rate, we are stuck with real expensive FF sensor chips for a long time.
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Antonio" Subject: Re: 35mm coverage of new lenses
Nonsense, of course it will get cheaper. Mass production.
Are they not already mass producing the things?
William Robb
